Kasper Hirvikoski
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Unity
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKasper Hirvikoski is a senior software engineering leader with 13+ years of hands-on full-stack experience and a track record scaling teams and platforms at Unity, now leading a 100+ person global organization building Unity Services Foundation. He blends product-minded engineering and people-first management, growing teams from small startups to large cross-functional organizations while still contributing code and architecture. Technically fluent across React, Angular, React Native, Go, Node, GraphQL and cloud migrations (AWS→GCP), he has delivered high-throughput monetization and API platforms serving large-scale traffic. An active open-source contributor, Kasper maintains macOS tooling like the Phoenix window manager and brings practical automation and UX sensibilities to developer tools. Based in Helsinki, he also runs a small consultancy and has a history of mentoring students and collaborating with academia. Colleagues describe him as a builder who equally values robust systems, team processes, and shipping measurable product outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at University of HelsinkiHigh School, High School at Haukilahden lukio
Finnish, English, Swedish, French, German
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Github Skills (11)
objective-c10
macos10
javascript8
ui-design7
front-end-development7
api-design7
uid7
ios6
iphone6
ipad6
swift4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kasper/tikape-kesa-2014
May 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 4 months
sdegutis/phoenix
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:101 commits in 21 days
electronos-macosscriptablejavascriptapp-manager
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